Welcome PTO Meeting This meeting is being recorded

Welcome! PTO Meeting This meeting is being recorded October 6, 2020

Call to order . This meeting is being recorded

Agenda • Welcome and executive board report: Alicia Collins and Jessica Nicholson • 2020 -2021 Budget • Principal Report: Mr. Duffy • Teacher Report: Mrs. Bower + Mrs. Leonelli • Standing Committee Reports • Events • Fundraising ideas + election day sale volunteers • Ways to get involved • PTO meeting schedule .

PTO Board ● Co-Presidents: Alicia Collins and Jessica Nicholson ● Co-Vice President: Michelle Devane and Julie Shirazi ● Co-Secretaries: Deirdre Georgoudis and Emma Woodward ● Treasurer: Sarah Remage-Healey ● Spirit Wear and Kindergarten Liaison: Jen Pettit

2020 -2021 Budget .

Principal Report uffy D. r M Teacher Report Mrs. Leo nell i

Standing Committee Reports • Restaurant Night Out - Brenda Shatsoff • October 8 th – Bertucci’s

Free and easy fundraising for the PTO Did you know that every time you shop with Amazon you can be helping the Plympton PTO for free? Add the 'Plympton School PTO' as your preferred organization at http: //smile. amazon. com/

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Events • Halloween event – tentative – in discussion • Read-a-thon – Week of November 2 nd • Paint night – Early December

Misc. • Election day sale – raffle donations (Play-doh and Lego sets) + volunteers • Fundraising ideas – open discussion

Ways you can get involved • Go to www. plymptonpto. org and sign up for the weekly newsletter • Come to meetings – stay tuned for virtual meeting schedule • Volunteer - we are always looking for new volunteers and ideas, feel free to reach out or respond to one of our many requests for helpers! • If you have ideas, feedback on fundraisers, or you have any special interests or skills you would like to let us know about (examples: you like getting stuff for free so you want to help us get items for our raffles, you are a grant writer and would like to help us get grants for our initiatives, etc. ) • As a parent or guardian of a student at Plympton Elementary School, this is your PTO! Help us make this the best school community for all our families. • Please note: all volunteers MUST be CORI approved through Waltham Public Schools (call the school to make an appointment)

Upcoming meeting dates November 10, 2020 – 7 pm – Tuesday December 8, 2020 – 7 pm – Tuesday